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So what does Warren Buffett's secretary make? Neither Buffett nor Debbie Bosanek are spilling, despite a flurry of speculation after her star turn at the State of the Union address. "They can't attack the facts, so they attack the person. It's ridiculous," Buffett tells the Omaha World-Herald. Of her salary, Bosanek would say only, "I feel like I'm treated fairly at Berkshire." A Forbes blogger speculated yesterday, based on Bosanek's 35.8% tax rate, that she must make between $200,000 and $500,000, though other bloggers (including another at Forbes) almost immediately said his calculation and assumptions were flat-out wrong.

Buffett said none of the online speculation has been correct and complained that it deflects from the real point: "I'm saying she is being treated unfairly in the tax code, as are tens of millions of others, compared to me," he told the newspaper. "They shouldn't change the rates on all the other people. They should change mine." Adds Bosanek: "It's not like I look forward to paying taxes, but I don't mind paying taxes as long as everybody's treated fairly. I'm not saying anyone should feel sorry for me or lower my taxes. I never even thought about it until he wrote the article."

I bet Obama never took a math class in school. He thinks that taxing the big earners will solve all his problems. He's wrong. There are 8700 people in the US that made over $10 million dollars each in 2010. If you take ALL the money they made and tax them 100% that would make up about $280 Billion. The US Debt is $15 Trillion. That $280 Billion will operated the US government for 20 days. Where's he going to get the rest of the money from? The printing press? If none of these big earners invest in stocks and businesses anymore, what's going to happen to the stock market, the economy, and jobs in this country? Debbie Bosanek doesn't know either.

saucier111

Jan 27, 2012 10:49 AM CST

The GOp has given the rich huge tax breaks for over 30 years. Now they have most of the money in their pockets, but they are not happy because they want all the money of the world in their pockets. The GOP stands for Greedy Obstructionist Party If we would tax the rich like we should, we would not have 16 trillion deficit, our roads and bridges would not be crumbling,our unemployed would be a lot lower. We can thank our replubician congress for out sourcing 7,000,000 job, remember Jack Abramoff and Siapan.